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The gut microbial community structure—communities of bacteria, viruses and fungi that live in the intestines—influences the inflammatory response in the lungs of aging mice, according to researchers from the Institute of Functional Anatomy at Charité, the Medical University of Berlin in Germany. Inflammation leads to reduced lung function and disease in older adults. It also worsens their prognosis in cases of pneumonia and acute lung injury. However, the source of the inflammation and potential treatments are not fully understood. In this study, researchers analyzed the gut microbiome and its impact on inflammatory signaling in aging lungs. Then, scientists tested the...

Palo Alto, California, administrators have exempted a celebrity chef’s restaurant from the city’s sweeping gas stove ban. Jose Andres’ newly planned restaurant, Zaytinya, is one of the latest Simon Property Group (SPG) buildings that received project approval in 2019, including for a a gas line, which the restaurant relies on, according to Palo Alto Online. The plan, however, changed when planning staff informed the company that due to the City Council’s revision of the building code, the restaurant was required to use electric stoves. Simon wrote a letter in April threatening the city council with a lawsuit if it maintained...

US House members probing the COVID pandemic fired off a letter Friday to disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo demanding he testify about why he sent coronavirus patients to nursing homes during the height of outbreak. House members previously sent five similar letters to the ex-New York governor, to which he did not respond. “Your testimony is important to uncover the circumstances and policies which led to the death of more than 15,000 New York nursing home residents during your tenure,” wrote Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), chairman of the GOP-controlled House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, in the panel’s latest...

“No Labels” has been “gaining steam” and raising money to hopefully get a candidate on the 2024 ballot, with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) at the top of the political group’s list, the New York Times reported. The group — which has been working to allow all 50 states to vote on a third-party candidate in the presidential election — is trying to raise a large war chest in order to have a “well-funded” “unity ticket” on the ballot in the 2024 presidential election, the Times reported. The Times reported:

Explanation: A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is nearby, about 30 million light-years distant toward the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. Also cataloged as NGC 5055, the majestic island universe is nearly 100,000 light-years across, about the size of our own Milky Way. Its bright core and majestic spiral arms lend the galaxy its popular name, The Sunflower Galaxy. This exceptionally deep exposure also follows faint, arcing star streams far into the galaxy's halo. Extending nearly 180,000 light-years from the galactic center, the star streams are likely remnants of tidally disrupted satellites of M63. Other satellite galaxies...

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has sent the internet into a frenzy once again with his bizarre laugh that has been widely mocked online. It left many in stitches and lots were quick to crack jokes about the footage which showed Ron DeSantis cackling with his mouth wide open. But it left others questioning whether he was actually a robot masquerading as a human as they claimed the clip 'will haunt your nightmares'. A Twitter user joked that he was not human like DeSantis and could relate to the awkward moment and wrote: 'Me when I experience human emotion laughter.' And...

President Biden's Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona failed to protect women's sports from biological males on Wednesday during an interview with NBC News. While discussing the Biden administration's proposed changes to Title IX rules, which would strip schools from receiving federal funding if they prevent biological males from competing in girls' sports, the NBC host asked, "What do you say to the parent of a high school girl who says, 'I don't want transgender girls competing against my daughter?'" "It's a proposal right now," Secretary Cardona said. "What we want to make sure is that all students feel welcome." "We're...

Clad in a dressing gown, and not much else, in the suite of a luxury hotel in West Hollywood, it's clear to see how Karen McDougal might attract the attention of a rich, powerful, older man. A man like former president, Donald Trump, for instance. Karen is an ex-Playboy model who claims she had a ten-month affair with Trump back in 2006. She's one of two women – the other being Stormy Daniels – who allegedly had a relationship with the married multi-millionaire prior to his successful 2016 election campaign. It's these women's allegations that lie at the heart of...

Ben Werschkul·Washington Correspondent The support on Capitol Hill for what was once a fringe legal theory is growing by the hour as the debt ceiling talks head into their final days. On Thursday, a group of of 11 progressive senators led by Sens. Tina Smith (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released a new letter to President Biden calling on him to prepare to cancel the debt ceiling by invoking the 14th amendment. The increased adoption of an idea that could roil markets is a reflection of growing Democratic anxieties that the White House could be preparing for...

ALPENA TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A teenager from Northern Michigan saved his sister from an attempted abduction by using a slingshot to fight off a man, police say. It can be compared to an underdog David versus Goliath type of story. Michigan State Police out of the Alpena area had reported that on May 10, an 8-year-old girl was out mushroom hunting in her backyard when a 17-year-old appeared out of the woods. Officials say that the 17-year-old approached the 8-year-old girl and held her mouth shut, preventing her from screaming, and attempted to drag her into the woods near her...

Ron DeSantis is determined to recruit Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders as his running mate before making a formal announcement on his 2024 presidential bid, sources close to his campaign told RadarOnline.com exclusively. Insiders claim that DeSantis has set his sights on the former Trump press secretary to be his VP pick after she won the race to become the state's first female governor in November, succeeding Gov. Asa Hutchinson who served in the role since 2015. "He really only has one strong choice: Sarah," the source told RadarOnline.com exclusively. "He is desperate to lock up his running mate before...

An Illinois teacher of over 20 years had the cops called on her after she gave her middle school students the option of reading a book about sexuality and gender. Sarah Bonner held a “book tasting” for students in March and offered an array of fiction and nonfiction titles including Juno Dawson’s “This Book Is Gay,” which quickly became the epicenter of a massive controversy when parents called the police over the book choice. “I wanted to give them a smattering of fiction and nonfiction to choose from on a day that we call ‘Reading Monday,'” Bonner told Today.com. “We...

It’s a Tuesday morning in Tallahassee, and a wood-paneled hearing room at the Florida legislature is packed. The state senate’s fiscal-policy committee is considering a bill to prohibit most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, and dozens of citizens have lined up to testify: anguished young students in colorful hair and “abortion is health care” T-shirts; little old ladies wearing cardigans and crosses. For hours they speak in emotional terms as the senators listen. Yet an air of inevitability hangs over the proceedings. Governor Ron DeSantis supports this bill, and therefore it is destined to pass. In Tallahassee these days,...

Jim Brown, arguably the greatest football player of all time, has died at the age of 87, TMZ Sports has confirmed. "It is with profound sadness that I announce the passing of my husband, Jim Brown," Monique Brown tells us. "He passed away peacefully last night at our LA home. To the world he was an activist, actor and football star." "To our family, he was a loving and wonderful husband, father and grandfather. Our hearts are broken." We're told Jim hadn't been doing well ... and was recently visited by several of his close friends including Marshall Faulk, Eric...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Sixty-year-old Leonor Rodriguez never pulled the trigger when a man was shot in the parking lot of a west Miami-Dade mall Thursday, but she faced an attempted murder charge just the same, according to police. That’s because police say Rodriguez encouraged the suspect, whom police were still looking for Friday, to shoot the man because she was “irate” over “vulgar statements” the victim made to her during an altercation in the Midway Crossings parking lot. The shooting happened just after 12:30 p.m. outside the half-century-old mall, once- and perhaps better known as the “Mall of the...

Jim Brown, one of the greatest professional and college football players of all-time, has died at the age of 87. His wife, Monique, announced Brown's death in an Instagram post on Friday afternoon. She said Brown "passed peacefully" on Thursday night in their home in Los Angeles. "To the world he was an activist, actor, and football star," the post read. "To our family he was a loving and wonderful husband, father, and grandfather. Our hearts are broken..." In 2020, Brown was selected to the NFL 100 all-time team and also was ranked as the No. 1 all-time player on...

Police arrested a 35-year-old woman, who identifies as a 15-year-old boy, for harboring a teen runaway. Shouldn’t Washington Progressives defend this woman for being mis-aged? The police allege Amanda Dorrough was involved in a host of inappropriate behavior with juveniles, including getting naked in front of them, inappropriately touching one, and providing marijuana. One of her alleged victims characterized her as “pedophile-ish,” according to a police incident report, which doesn’t list the individual ages of the alleged victims. This incident highlights the dangers of identifying as something you’re not. But it also shows the left-wing hypocrisy on issues of identity....

A left-wing radical from North Dakota has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and faces just 10 years in prison thanks to a sweetheart deal that saw his original murder charge downgraded after he admitted to killing a teenager for having conservative political views. 42-year-old left-wing radical Shannon Brandt, of Glenfield, North Dakota, pleaded guilty on Thursday to a reduced charge of manslaughter in the 2022 politically-motivated homicide of 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson. Though Brandt was initially charged with murder in Ellingson’s death and admitted that he killed the young man for political reasons, his murder charge was reduced in a sweetheart deal...

"This is another failure of the Biden administration, which could have severe consequences for the United States’ ability to deter China," Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said of the failure of the administration to submit mandated reports on Taiwan. The overdue reports were supposed to come from Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Republican senators are sounding the alarm over the Biden administration’s apparent failure to follow requirements of the Taiwan Enhanced Resilience Act. The law is part of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, which President Joe Biden signed into law on Dec. 23. Among other things, the Taiwan...